Youth representatives and young leaders in social media gathered Wednesday at the United Nations Headquarters in New York to discuss what the future holds for young innovators. The U.N. Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC, sponsored a series of panel...

Plenty has been penned on the time teenagers and young adults "waste" on the Internet. Facebook is often vilified on this account. And while Internet addiction, bullying and diminishing attention spans are certainly of concern, the empowerment these ...

The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Korrio Quick Pitch: An all-in-one plann...

When Facebook launched its integrated messages system in November 2010, founder Mark Zuckerberg related an anecdote about his girlfriend's younger sister. He talked about how the young woman and her friends, high school students, used Facebook in a w...

Adora Svitak is author of three books — Flying Fingers, Dancing Fingers and Yang in Disguise. She is one of the TED Conference’s youngest speakers and the curator of youth event TEDxRedmond. Since age 7 she has been drumming up excitement about readi...

Harvard research director Carrie James took the stage at Mashable's Social Good Summit earlier today to encourage us all to mentor young people on using social media for social good. The online behaviors of youth and how to improve and correct them a...

Governments around the world are worried about the perils of gaming addiction -- and with kids racking up FarmVille debt and Bulgarian politicians getting canned for playing too much, it's no wonder. Recently a Korean couple was even arrested for sta...

If you're under 25 and use Twitter, you're not the source of the site's tremendous growth. While we recently questioned the findings of a largely anecdotal report from Morgan Stanley written by a 15 year old, Nielsen has now produced figures that con...

Thrive is a new free financial advisory service for the Generation X and Y set. Their goal is to provide easy and simple tools to help the twenty- and thirty-something crowd manage their money matters and plan their financial future. Thrive lets you ...

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